http://technician.uwcblog.com Challenges and Opportunities for the Electronics Technician Thu, 23 Jul 2009 04:50:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://technician.uwcblog.com/2009/02/23/electronics-in-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-11 ScatCat Thu, 23 Jul 2009 04:50:57 +0000 http://technician.uwcblog.com/?p=3#comment-11 Hello I am an electronics tech in the North West corner in the United States. This been poor for me, I almost exhausted my primary unemployment benefit and will have to play for an extension. I have been unemployed for six months. I lost my job due to the company sold it product line. I have been a technician for 24 years starting in the US Navy. The thing is much change my more have not. New technologies like CSP (putting the ball grid substrate directly on the board) make rework impossible. In many manufacturing (that did not go to China) most jobs are in engineering. There are some jobs is service mainly medical, telecommunications and biomedical. Right now thing are tough form me and I a step away form being homeless. One new shift I notice, particularly with Intel is the need to know some software developments well as hardware. These days much function that was done with discreet components are done with firmware. Hello I am an electronics tech in the North West corner in the United States. This been poor for me, I almost exhausted my primary unemployment benefit and will have to play for an extension. I have been unemployed for six months. I lost my job due to the company sold it product line.
I have been a technician for 24 years starting in the US Navy. The thing is much change my more have not. New technologies like CSP (putting the ball grid substrate directly on the board) make rework impossible. In many manufacturing (that did not go to China) most jobs are in engineering. There are some jobs is service mainly medical, telecommunications and biomedical. Right now thing are tough form me and I a step away form being homeless.
One new shift I notice, particularly with Intel is the need to know some software developments well as hardware. These days much function that was done with discreet components are done with firmware.

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